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Lawyers are unabashedly self-promotional. A lawyer on !OSCON panel say that you shouldn’t make any #swpats decisions w/out hiring a lawyer.
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!Disturbing to still hear lawyers & #OIN arguing that #swpats reexams help software freedom. This is a distraction to the problem. !OSCON
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@bkuhn that’s more guild-promotional than self-promotional, I think. Like a physician saying ‘check w/ a physician’
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I have a lot of clients asking for advice on applying for #swpats and my answer comes for free: “don’t do it”
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@carlopiana interesting! how do you justify that, on a globalized world full of such landmines?
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What do I say? If you don’t have >$100M turnover, you don’t stand a chance to ever use it anyway. If you want to burn money, buy good Champagne millésimé or some fine Barolo. That’s how I justify it.
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@carlopiana I see, thanks. I was hoping for some argument I could use with Red Hat upper mgmt, to at least fix a bug in the patent promise
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@carlopiana, great! But you are a very special lawyer. Not many are like you; even those who purport to be in the “Open Source community”.
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I disagree. For many small companies, their patent portfolio helps sweeten the deal when potential acquirers come around.
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@carlopiana you might like the #DPL. AFAICT if it does anything, creates disincentive to file http://ur1.ca/9t5e3
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that’s more a myth than else. But yes, that might be one reason. don’t get me wrong @bkuhn, though i hate software patents, as a lawyer i would be compelled to advise for them if in the interest of client. So far hasn’t happened.
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